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Batumi Botanical Garden

The Batumi Botanical Garden is located at the place called Mtsvane Kontskhi ("The Green Cape") on the Black Sea shore, it is one of the largest botanical gardens. The Batumi Botanical Garden was started by the Russian botanist Andrey Nikolayevich Krasnov. He was aided by two skilled gardeners and decorators - the French D'Alphonse and the Georgian Yason Gordeziani. Currently, the garden consists of nine floristic sectors, those of Caucasian humid subtropics, East Asia, New Zealand, South America, the Himalayas, Mexico, Australia, and of the Mediterranean. The garden collection comprises 2037 taxonomic units of ligneous plants, including 104 of Caucasian origin. The Batumi Botanical Garden had formerly been operated by the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Since 2006, it is an independent institution.